Crayon Tools

I’ve been doing a bit of drawing lately, and we have this big box of crayons, so I got to thinking about crayons for adults. What might that look like? What if they were less ‘corporate’?

Luckily, we had a whole lot of broken crayon bits, so I soldered up a couple of metal molds, got some advice from a couple of DIY websites, stunk up the kitchen and almost ruined a perfectly good cookie sheet. Still, lots of fun for the whole family!

I took inspiration from various stone and ‘primitive’ tool shapes, along with simple surface decoration. My biggest improvement, besides being able to do rainbows in alternative scales, is adding a hole, because…

… all crayons should be able to be worn.

About John

Interested in how information intersects daily life, technology, and art.
Collaboration specialist, working in social and collaborative media. Biomedical Informaticist, focusing on patient/patient, patient/provider communication.